The following Monday, Morgan did her best not to rip Stacy's head off. She avoided her friends and if it wasn't for her best friend Ashlee, she might have spent the whole time in the bathroom crying. Ashlee tried her best to cheer Morgan up. She decided to focus on revenge plots.

"Okay how about this one," Ashlee schemed, "we take a bag of dog poop and set it on his front porch and light it on fire. Then we run away!"

"What good will that do?" Morgan sighed absentmindedly.

"When he sees the bag lit on fire he'll stomp on it!" Ashlee replied gleefully.

"Sounds tempting," Morgan replied, "But I don't think it's going to work."

"Well think of something," Ashlee said irritated, "you have a rare opportunity here. This is like get back at scummy boyfriend jackpot! He doesn't even know you know, you know?"

"What?" Morgan asked shocked, "He doesn't even know I know?"

"Not as far as I know. I certainly didn't tell him."

"So you're saying this whole time he's just not called me?"

"Wow double burn," Ashlee winced, "Good news is you're done with the scum bag."

"No," Morgan replied coldly, "Not quite yet."

By Thursday, Morgan had written and rewritten the speech over and over in her head and on paper. She knew just what she was going to say to him! She was going to tell him what a scum he was and how he would never find anyone else who was as good as she was! She would ask him what he was thinking by kissing Stacy in broad daylight. He had to know people would see it! She was certain when she saw him on Friday; she would give him the worst lecture of his life!

Her father was home early Thursday night. This was always great for the family because her dad had been working long hours at the law firm. Apparently the divorce rate was up again. But even though her father was tired he still spent time with the family. Morgan decided not to tell him what was going on. She didn't want to ruin her family time talking about her stupid ex boyfriend. Besides, her father had never really gotten used to the idea of her dating in the first place. Why tell him he was right? Morgan went to bed on Thursday feeling like Friday afternoon couldn't come soon enough.

"So when are you going to do it?" Ashlee whispered during first period, "I want to be there!"

"I have to find the right moment," Morgan replied, "I'll know it when I see it."

Morgan spent all day looking for the right moment. She thought about approaching him during passing period but she knew it didn't give her enough time. Then she figured it out! Lunch would be perfect! Everyone was there; they would get to see what a scumbag he really was.

Morgan looked around the lunch room for her absentee ex boyfriend. She couldn't for the life of her figure out where he was. Then she saw him, walking into the lunch room with his friends, joking and laughing. Morgan stood up to go talk to him when a perfectly manicured hand grabbed hold of her hooded jacket and pulled her back down.

"Just where do you think you are going?" A shrill irritating voice asked. Morgan turned to see Stacy Sanchez standing behind her with her hands on her tiny hips in her pink mini skirt and designer sweater. Her face looked as if she was ready for a fight and judging by the tone in her voice she knew what Morgan was planning.

"Mind your own business Stacy," Morgan hissed, "don't you have someone else you can annoy?"

"Oh I don't think you're annoyed," Stacy smirked, "I think you're jealous that Max chose me over you. How could you not be? I mean look at him, he's handsome, he's tall, and he's way too good for you. I don't know what he ever saw in you in the first place."

"Wow Stacy, don't hold back, tell us what you really think," Ashlee replied sarcastically, "You know your hair extensions don't match don't you?"

"This has nothing to do with you fatso," Stacy shot back, "Why don't you mind your own business and go eat something?"

"You know I would," Ashlee replied, "But I have this strict habit of not listening to hookers."

Stacy screeched and lunged at Ashlee, Ashlee proceed to grab Stacy's hair and pulled hard! Morgan hurried to help her friend. She jumped into the brawl and hit Stacy on the arm; Stacy called for help and her hangers on hurried to assist her. Soon it was a full on brawl; screaming, kicking, biting, and hair pulling. The fight was so bad that the assistant principle had to get involved. She succeeded in pulling the girls off of each other until only Morgan and Stacy were left. Morgan had Stacy in a headlock and Stacy was clawing at Morgan's face.

"Boyfriend stealer," Morgan exclaimed.

"Fat loser," Stacy yelled back.

"Ladies," The assistant principle yelled, "stop this instant!" Morgan and Stacy stopped moving, but Morgan still had Stacy in a headlock. "Girls," the vice principle continued, "I will see you in my office in exactly two minutes. Go get cleaned up. This means all of you." The girls that were involved in the fight groaned they didn't want to be punished for helping their friends. But the vice principals word was law around the school. Everyone went to separate bathrooms to wash up, on vice principals orders.

Morgan nursed the scratches on her face while Ashlee checked out her black eye. Their clothes were ripped and their hair was a mess.

"Man we kicked butt out there!" Ashlee exclaimed, "No way Stacy came out of this looking pretty!"

"We are in so much trouble," Morgan sighed, "what are we going to do?"

"We are going to enjoy this victory," Ashlee demanded, "we go down, Stacy goes down with us!"

Morgan didn't quite share Ashlee's opinion. But there was no turning back, she had hit Stacy. Now she had to deal with the consequences. The walk from the bathroom to the vice principals office was the longest two minutes of Morgan's life. When they arrived at the door they heard Stacy's whiney voice pleading her case. Ashlee did a rather good impression of her while they waited.

They emerged from the office an hour later less enthusiastic then when they went in.

"Who does that woman think she is?" Ashlee fumed as they walked out the schools front door.

"Um... the vice principle?" Morgan replied.

"It's not fair," Ashlee whined, "two weeks suspension? My mom is going to kill me and bring me back to clean up the mess!"

"We got lucky," Morgan replied, "we could have been expelled!"

"But we weren't," Ashlee sighed, "be happy and help me figure out how to hide this from my mom!"

"Hey!" A voice called from behind. Morgan turned to see Max running towards her.

"What do you want?" Ashlee demanded.

"I want you to stop messing with Stacy," Max replied looking directly at Morgan, "She didn't do anything wrong!"

"Wait what?" Morgan replied, "Stacy didn't do anything wrong? What about stealing my boyfriend?"

"Wow," Max replied, "Stacy was right about you. You are so clingy!" Morgan's mouth dropped open and she felt tears welling up in her eyes. She needed to get away. She turned on her heels and ran down the street not caring if anyone saw her. Behind her she heard a slap and Ashlee yelling "stranger danger." Ashlee sure had a way of getting back at people.

Morgan ran down the street and around the corner. She didn't stop running long enough to see that she was going down the wrong street. Soon she was over two miles away from her school. But she didn't stop, she kept going. Finally after a six mile stretch she was out of breath. She slowed down and took a good look at her surroundings. She was completely lost! She was in some sort of construction area, nothing looked familiar. She turned around to try and get her bearings. Morgan took a few steps backwards and lost her footing. She screamed as she fell down the man hole. She fell for what seemed like hours all in one instant, then all of the sudden she hit the ground with a thud.

- Author's notes, findings, and ramblings -

Hooray for plot development!

I have been working on this chapter for a while, I wanted it to work just right.

If your wondering why they didn't use more colorful language.. I needed to keep the same rating.

If your wondering why the girls weren't expelled from school... its my story and I didn't want them to be.

Now that we have that all cleared up...

Morgan is a character that I am really enjoying writing. She had this underlying spunk which I'm hoping really shows in the coming chapters. Ashlee was a fun character to write! She is based off of one of my sisters, I basically asked myself what my sister would do when faced with someone like Stacy. Well... now you know.

Please read and review! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the story so far!